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'File 3/21 Political Officer, Qatar and Political Affairs, Qatar' [43v] (86/94)
The record is made up of 1 file (47 folios). It was created in 25 May 1948-27 Jul 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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We are concerned only with the manumission instruct- 3-
ions for the manumission of slaves of loner domicile as it would
affect the established slave population of Qatar - the Shaikh
is bound by Article I of the 1916 Treaty (vide page 180 of 10/3-II)
to suppress the trade in newly captured slaves.
necessary to ascertain whether an €ip^licant is (a) a debtor,
(b) a criminal, (c) a person whose release is likely to cause
political repercussions, or (d) belongs to the area of another
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
; but to be a debtor or a criminal does not render a slave]
ineligible for a manumission certificate (to claim manumission
as a slave is sometimes the trick of a free person who hopes in i
this way to escape from his debts or punishment for his crimes),)
and the general instructions regarding manumission - vide page
12 seq of A. 30/4 - are now so human£&faVntniWtfr interpreted - vide
noting at pages 21 - 24 ibid - that, in practice, if a slave
has the energy to run away and present himself at Bahrain claim-j
ing cruel treatment by his master or his impending sale to a
new and worse master he has little difficulty in securing a
manumission certificate. That more slaves do not seek manumiss
ion is because they are often better off economically than free
men and the fact that the manumission facilities we offer to
the disgruntled make for the general amelioration of the slaves’!
lot, vide page 88 of 20/1-1.
however, has come about slowly and in regard to Qatar P.A. ^ay
be interested to see the older manumission instructions at page
1 seq of A.30/4, with their different procedures for Kuwait,
Bahrain, Muscat, and the T.C. Presumably the procedure for
Qatar is to follow^the procedures for Kuwait, the T.C., and
Bahrain, in that order, the ’'Kuwait” procedure to obtain during \
the % period for which the Shaikh of Qatar would like a guarantee
of non-intervention, cf. s. 5 of 3/21.
It is true that manumission certificates are not Lj-
granted automatically to all applicants because some enquiry is
The liberalization of our manumissiom policy.
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4. 4. 49.
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This file contains correspondence between British officials, primarily in the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Bahrain and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Bahrain. The correspondence discusses Britain's desire to establish some form of British representation in Qatar, either through the creation of the post of a Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. based in Qatar or the establishment of a 'rest house' for the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain to use while on official visits to the country. The correspondence discusses the political rationale for such a decision, and the reason behind Qatar's initial opposition to it.
The file contains a letter to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Bahrain from Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī that is in Arabic (folio 25).
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- 1 file (47 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 47; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-42; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/2/2000
- Title
- 'File 3/21 Political Officer, Qatar and Political Affairs, Qatar'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:24v, 26r:46v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence